NUMB:
921518
VERS:
SUBSTITUTE 1
REF:
XXBY:
ALD. BUTLER, RICHARDS AND JOHNSON
TITL:
A substitute ordinance relating to firearms dealer licenses and firearms safety.
SECS:
81-52.6 cr
84-5-1-km cr
92-2-6-b am
105-43.2 rp
105-44 cr
105-45 cr
ANLS:
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- Analysis -
This ordinance creates licensing regulations for firearms dealers in order to protect residential, business, commercial and manufacturing areas from harmful encroachment by the incompatible location and operation of firearms dealers.
This ordinance:
1. Establishes a city firearms dealer license required of any person "
... engaged in the business of importing,
manufacturing, buying, selling or transferring firearms
or ammunition on a regular or continuing basis."
2. Requires all applicants for a city firearms dealer
license to be licensed as a federal firearms dealer at
the time of application and to maintain a federal
firearms dealer license at all times while licensed as a
city firearms dealer.
3. Requires dealers who purchase, sell or exchange
secondhand firearms to obtain a city secondhand dealer's
license.
4. Establishes a $______ fee for each license, issued
for one year effective from the date granted; requires
renewals to be filed by the first day of the month
preceding the month in which the license expires;
establishes an additional fee of $______ for late
renewals.
5. Adds firearms dealers to the list of city license
holders prohibited from committing specific acts of
discrimination.
6. Requires a separate license for each firearms dealer
location.
7. Requires the license fee to be paid to the city
treasurer prior to filing an application with the city
clerk; applications are to be referred to the
commissioner of building inspection and the police
department for investigation; requires fingerprinting of
applicants.
8. Requi...
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